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Allik, Jüri and Realo, Anu (2019) Culture and personality. In: Matsumoto, David and Hwang, Hyisung C., (eds.) The Handbook of Culture and Psychology. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, pp. 401-430. ISBN 9780190679743

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Abstract

In this chapter, the authors discuss the relationship between culture and personality. A standard theoretical position that these two concepts are inseparably entangled is challenged. Understanding of the relationship between culture and personality has developed under the pressure of two opposite principles, one of which postulates that all human beings, regardless of their culture or race, share the same basic psychological and cognitive make-up, and the second, which maintains that everything around us is produced by culture, which penetrates even the deepest layers of the human mind. Because little in nature and especially in culture meet universality criteria in the strict sense, universalism and relativism are not two mutually excluding alternatives. Universal and culture-specific aspects of personality and psychopathology are discussed. Although personality psychology has been very fascinated by all kinds of cultural differences and unique details, it has predominantly been the psychic unity of humankind that has emerged from cross-cultural studies.

Item Type: Book Item
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Psychology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place of Publication: New York, NY
ISBN: 9780190679743
Book Title: The Handbook of Culture and Psychology
Editor: Matsumoto, David and Hwang, Hyisung C.
Official Date: July 2019
Dates:
DateEvent
July 2019Published
5 February 2019Accepted
Number of Pages: 866
Page Range: pp. 401-430
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190679743.003.0013
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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